Date: Thu, 5 Aug 93 14:33 EDT From: TCJones@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL ... Interestingly, I am coming to the conclusion that big business operates on a web of trust very much like what is found in PGP. There are Dun&Bradstreet reports of course, but, bye-and-large, when a company wants credit, they give a list of the other companies that they do business with as evidence of their trustworthiness in receiving credit. Peace ..Tom Jones